In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, ...

The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly plugging away at research they hope will help us all adapt to the Biosphere 1 — ...

Biosphere 2 is a one-of-a-kind research facility located five miles southwest of Oracle, Arizona, and is home to five distinct biomes that replicate environmental conditions and further ...

If you’re younger than age 35 and reside outside the Southwest, it’s unlikely you’ve heard of Biosphere 2. The 3.14-acre complex that was a major news story in the late 1980s and early 1990s ...

If you’re younger than age 35 and reside outside the Southwest, it’s unlikely you’ve heard of Biosphere 2. The 3.14-acre complex that was a major news story in the late 1980s and early 1990s ...

Hanging Around at Biosphere 2. By Allison J. Petrozziello '03. In the middle of the Sonoran Desert, a hulking steel and glass structure interrupts the landscape. Inside, six biomes and several Smith ...

Biosphere 2 is located in Oracle, Ariz., about 35 miles north of Tucson and 115 miles south of Phoenix. Tours last about 90 minutes, so it's an easy day trip for visitors to either city. Visiting ...

Biosphere 2's 30-year-old rain forest is nearly 1.3 million cubic feet of tropical habitat supporting a complex patchwork of nearly 98 ... (Biosphere 2 Biomes are maintained as tropical ...

Biosphere 2 project began in 1984, led by John Allen who called it “The Human Experiment. ... Each biome had to have the correct temperature and rainfall amounts.

Biosphere 2 participants are shown in a still image from the 2020 documentary “Spaceship Earth ... It took months before the crew understood that the concrete in one of the biomes was absorbing ...

Biosphere 2's ocean ecosystem contains 700,000 gallons of sea water brought in from the ... "What's exciting about LEO and all of our biomes is that not only can we kind of peer into the ...

Biosphere 2's ocean ecosystem contains 700,000 gallons of sea water brought in from the ... "What's exciting about LEO and all of our biomes is that not only can we kind of peer into the ...